The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-10-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

ARTIFICIAL ivory Is made by injecting
whitewood with chloride OF lime.
Tue average price OF new corn through.
out Kansas is forty cents per bushel.
In AudraIn County, NO., there is a base.
ball club composed OF nine brothers.
A HiSDoo might readily worship the
Western locomotive; II is so like Jugger-
naut.
TnB koyoo tree, from which tho Japan
esc paper Is made, is rapidly becoming ex.
tinct.
A SOCIETY In Detroit OF men sworn not
TO swear numbers nearly 1000 persons, II
is said.
AN Atlantic County (N. J,) divine re-
Gently delivered q sermon TO an audience
OF ono.
Az Omaha bride, en- route 10 the altar,
split her satin corsago by an ill,timed
sneeEe.
An automatic pUneil that writes blue,
red, violet and black at command is late
novelty.
EDIsoN's talking machine, the phono-
graph, has been perfected and viii be put
on the market. #'
THE bill In the Mexican Congr per.
mitting reelection TO the Prosidep has
been finally passed.
is this country 5000 insane persons are
supported by public taxation, amounting
10 900 annually,
THERH are twenty-one bureaus OF labor
IN the United States. Four years ago
there were only seven
AT point In adeop ravlne, two miles
from Wallingford, N. ", ice, IL is said,
forms the year around
TnEnE are only two public statues in San
Francisco OF President Garfield, tho
other OF General Halleck
THE wood choppers axe is said to bc
rapidly stripping New Hampshire OF some
OF lis most beautiful scenery.
PnoEnf Hicks, OF Petersburg, w. Va,
has married 4 widowcr with thirty-one
children. She ia his eighth wife.
TuE school slate manufacturers havo
formed pool and will put up prices, thus
putting another tax on education.
a MOVEMENT for Government control
OF the telegraph is already taking shape
In the work Of the Flftioth Congress.
Az uptown fancy store in New York
has on private exhibition ono OF the dia.
dems worn by the Empress Eugene,
PROMINENT physician OF Dubuque
thinks the turned-dowD kerosene lamp is
the prime and common cause OF dlphtheria
A FEMALE member OF tho Coldwater
tMich.) Salvation Army has worked on
hor jersey jacket the words, mo water In
helln
TnE word "boodlcn has gone into tho U.
4. language. Eastern newspapers, even
those OF Boston, use il without quotation
marks
IT Is asserted that ninety out OF every
hundred male children born In ireland at
present are named after Charles Stuart
Parnell
SEVEN u y. Senators spent the summer
IN Europe They were Palmer Stock.
bridge, Hale, Frye, spooner, Aldrich and
Hawley
HgNAY A. ReaisaoS, a famous dealer in
sporting goods, says that Mexico buys
moro pistols than all the United States put
together
Az official list Just published shows there
arc thirty avc widows OF revolutionary
soldiers still drawing pensions from the
Government
OSR OF the glaciers Of the Klnchinjunga
In Inda-a peak whose summit is 5000
feet above sea leyel--has a vertical height
Of 1900 feet.
Mrs FRAscEs l., WILLARD wants all tenn
peranco women in the world TO observe
November l2 as "a day OF special prayer
for the causc.n
HowARp PERRY, ono Of the ASSISTANTS 10
Mr.. Garland In the Department OF Justice
nc Washington, has just come into posses
sion Of large fortune.
A MiSSEAroLrs woman was fined $40 for
breaking her umbrella over the head OF a
street mashcr, but the public sent her over
900 TO pay the fine with.
TnE danger 70 aeronauts In Russia is IN
creased by the fact that the peasants
shoot ut them MS they come down, suppos-
ing thom to be evil spirits
TnE Michigan maiden who chased rob
ber with q pitchfork and made him drop
his booty, is said TO be receiving an
average OF fifteen offers OF marriage per
week,
THE Bankers Convention, recently held
In Pittsburgh, earnestly urged the extcn-
sion Of the extradition treaty with Great
Britain so as to cover emblezzlers and de.
faulters
,,assiams ",otn, 10 baxe a,scovcrodi. I. lec.
s ,ora," I,s necn,,nr,tv ia lint ia force
doo. not atriko inward or downward. but
forward.
F,osrs all around and snow in New Eng.
land tho other night warn tho country to
vot their heavy clothing and fuel in readi,
nes. nos for tho time when the blizzards begin
business
JUDGE PARros, Of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania, said, in a late decision, that
man who can not or does not read tho
newspapers is not properly qualified to
serve as Juror.
MRs. LOUISA TuRvBuRKE, of Washington,
claims Tint her father was brother Of
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